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... we would like to express our thanks for the support of Karel Schwarzemberk during the last presidential election – for the signing of Three-King Challenge, and for the votes cast for this candidate. We did lose, but we lost honorably. The other side won, but thanks to using tactics in many cases un-honorable and bellow the belt. Let’s be proud that we were part on the honorable side of the election campaign…
... I recall one very important meeting early in the morning in the presidential residence of Lany at the end of nineties. My friend staggered in, and instead of a normal greeting, he immediately started with the nasty verbal attacks on everyone present, including me, and ostentatiously ignored our host, the President himself. I was totally surprised, because till that moment we were always on friendly terms. President Vaclav Havel, standing behind my friend’s back, gave a waiter a hand sign to quickly put a full glass of Becherovka in front his guest. My friend immediately emptied it, then the second and then the third one. After that we were finally able to start the meeting. How many Becherovka shots he disposed of till the lunch break I do not know, I lost count. But, his mood was great. His opinions and comments during the debate started to change with growing level of alcohol in his blood. When we finally left that afternoon and stepped in front of a squad of reporters, he was holding me around my shoulders like his best friend and I was not able to escape his squeeze even in front of buzzing cameras; that made me quite uncomfortable. Next to me now stood, in the body of my friend, somebody totally different, and that made me quite sad. After this meeting I started to avoid him and on meetings with him I usually sent one of my deputies. This sadness I feel every time when I see him, on the TV screen, heroically assuring the public that he stopped drinking Becherovka, because he switched to Slivovitz. So, he exchanged one hard liquor for even harder one. ...
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The Natioanal Security Archive - 5 Documents: Record of Conversation between Thatcher and Gorbachev from 1987 and 1989!
… Conclusion
Overall, the documentary record suggests that Margaret Thatcher played a complex role at the end of the Cold War. Her conversations with Gorbachev on general issues of arms control helped make him more open to compromise with the United States, and to carrying out deep unilateral conventional arms reductions in Europe. However, her influence worked in the other direction on nuclear weapons policy, because of her close relationship with Reagan. Her strong stance in defense of nuclear weapons was one factor that prevented the historic breakthrough that Reagan and Gorbachev almost achieved in Reykjavik, and kept trying to return to afterwards. This deep and principled disagreement between Gorbachev and Thatcher on the value and role of nuclear weapons ultimately meant her influence on Gorbachev was stronger in the sphere of domestic politics, and especially the economy, but not as strong on overall foreign policy and arms control.
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VALDICE Prison: On Sunday, April 7th, I went on to visit Mr. Gilbert F. McCrae, an American citizen imprisoned in this infamous prison (that housed hardest criminals and most political prisoners during the Communist tyrannical rule) for the murder he did not commit. I brought him dozens of well-wishes and apologies for crude behavior of our so called “officials”, coming from the scores of our members and my readers who are following his odyssey through our so called “Czech judicial system”. After about three-hour meeting with this man, I was leaving him with my confusing feelings: our help could come too late. I remember him from two years ago, and what I have seen now – the change how he looks - is quite shocking. When I had seen him for the first time when he stepped into the visitor’s room, I could not believe that this is the same man I knew – the first what came to my mind was a vision of my father in his coffin – he posted a vision of a walking dead. He lost a lot of weight, he looks like a skeleton, but the most worrisome is the loss of his will to fight – the loss of his energy and stamina. Two years ago, in the Pankrac prison, he was a man, convinced of his innocence and for that reason full of fighting spirit to face his adversaries, but today he is more or less a broken wreck not fully understanding why this is all happening to him, and moving on a mental roller-coaster – as he himself confided in me – going from one extreme of raging anger to the opposite of total helplessness and self-pity.
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11.2.2012 - High Court Prague put on a performance comparable to those in the 50´s.
10.6.2012 - Is the writer from Valdice the Tram 22 murderer or an innocent man…?! I’m afraid the second is correct!
24.6.2012 - “Murderer” from Tram No. 22, Gilbert McCray writes to U.S. Ambassador in Prague Norman L.Eisen
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Date: March of 1938 (audio speech, file available)
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Vaclav Klaus will leave office next week after a decade as president of the Czech Republic. Although he played an important role in his country's history, his legacy is likely to be marred by his controversial positions on the European Union, climate change and often blatant populism.
An interview earlier this month with outgoing Czech President Vaclav Klaus was routine: spiteful, hysterical, and disparaging of his predecessor, the late poet, playwright and dissident, Vaclav Havel.
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(But she has enough of it to use slander and lies when pointing a finger on past of others, as do also her husband and son.)
From the real First Lady we would like to expect at first an apology for totally non-dignified pronoucements aimed by her family toward the Karel Schwarzerberg and his wife, and then an honest comments about criminal past of her father, Mr. Stefan Mistina. Instead, Livia Klausova’s behavior only proves that her character has lots to be desired to be the real and dignified First Lady.
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Prague, Feb 10 (CTK) - An unknown perpetrator has spray-painted a swastika and a red star on the building of the PORG secondary school in Prague that is headed by a son of outgoing Czech President Vaclav Klaus, commercial TV Nova said yesterday. The initials S.M. also appeared on the building's wall, Nova said. It said the sprayer probably reacted to the information carried by daily Lidove noviny (LN) on Saturday, according to which President Klaus's father-in-law Stefan Mistina participated in the persecution of Slovak Jews during World War Two.
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Those who have been damaged former Czechoslovak Republic on their human rights and fundamental freedoms, in person, or as heirs and relatives of those injured and who have a legal interest in the fair compensation of victims. ICC Information to prosecute crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the Czech Republic - letter to the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, dated 2.1.2013. ICC Form v CZ/E/D. From ICC information to prosecute crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the Czech Republic:
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